March 25, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
08:10
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| So one spouse is just constantly watching the hysteria on many of the news channels, and the other one just wants peace and quiet. | |
| So that could be a source of friction, obviously. | |
| I have a piece up you should, I think you would all benefit from. | |
| Suggestions for this difficult time. | |
| It is titled, it's up at DennisPrager.com. | |
| It came out yesterday, Tuesday column. | |
| One of my suggestions is that you just not watch the news. | |
| I'm for reading. | |
| I've always been that way. | |
| There's panic in what is written, but it is not quite like it is on TV news. | |
| And anyway, you could choose what you read. | |
| You can't choose what you watch. | |
| They tell you what to watch, obviously, by definition. | |
| And I think people should watch I Love Lucy reruns and bring some joy. | |
| You know what you should watch? | |
| I'll tell you what. | |
| I was commenting on this months ago. | |
| It just came up for some reason on my YouTube channel, and it was Groucho Marx show, the You Bet Your Life. | |
| Groucho Marx was a legend. | |
| The Marx Brothers were legends. | |
| And it is, for those of you who don't know him, first of all, you owe it to yourself to know the American past. | |
| The ignorance of the past is Unique in American history. | |
| People don't know. | |
| And now you can actually watch it and be entertained by it. | |
| The Groucho Marx show will reveal a lot about the America of the 1950s. | |
| I assume that was when his show was on. | |
| You bet your life, the 1950s. | |
| So you can go back, you know, quite a number of years now. | |
| That's, you know, 70 or 65 years ago. | |
| And see what Americans would laugh at and how they were able to laugh. | |
| But anyway, those are things to do now. | |
| As well as your hobbies and other things. | |
| But I'll talk about that, those general things on the Happiness Hour. | |
| But right now, I am curious to know, how are you getting along? | |
| It is now, we're in the second week of going nowhere. | |
| I mean, it's an astonishing thing, going nowhere. | |
| And for many of you, no income. | |
| Is that a source of tension in your marriage? | |
| Finances is, I think, the number one issue of tension in marriages. | |
| At the same time, I want to read to you one of the comments in the New York Times. | |
| You know, people comment, I read comments all the time. | |
| That's your chance to meet the public. | |
| It is a unique opportunity to see what the public thinks. | |
| When I read comments in the New York Times, I get a little depressed. | |
| Because if that's what the left-wing New York Times reading public thinks, the irrationality is so deep. | |
| That it is disconcerting. | |
| These are well-educated people. | |
| Profoundly irrational. | |
| But that's a separate issue. | |
| This was written about one of the comments to the article about how the coronavirus isolation is affecting couples. | |
| But this is just for you to read, just for you to hear. | |
| Christine M. in Boston. | |
| I'm typically not a jealous person, but I am so jealous of everyone who is lucky enough to have a spouse or family to spend this quarantine with. | |
| I am a social person and sick with stress of what living alone means for me for the foreseeable future. | |
| That's another interesting topic. | |
| It's not a male-female topic, but I think we should deal with that on the Happiness Hour. | |
| Or any hour. | |
| I don't even think it's necessary for that hour. | |
| If you're quarantined alone. | |
| I'll tell you this. | |
| If you are quarantined alone, you should have friends come over. | |
| I don't know what law I'm violating by advocating this, but your mental health is more important to me than the exceedingly remote likelihood of your dying from the coronavirus. | |
| Remember, you're contracting it for the vast majority of people doesn't mean a thing. | |
| So let's live on Earth here. | |
| You should have, you should visit, I'm not saying you should have ten people, but you should have somebody or two people. | |
| You can keep your six feet distance. | |
| You don't have to hug at the door. | |
| You shouldn't hug at the door. | |
| I'll acknowledge that. | |
| And you keep your six feet, and you have people over, and you go over to people. | |
| Are there states where you're not allowed in your car except for essential business? | |
| Has that been passed yet? | |
| I wouldn't be surprised. | |
| I wonder if New York City is... | |
| They're talking about closing the streets? | |
| You mean to car traffic? | |
| Well, then you can't visit anybody. | |
| Well, unless they're in walking or bicycling distance. | |
| You're allowed to bicycle? | |
| Yes. | |
| Wow. | |
| So anyway, how are you and your significant other doing in this situation? | |
| I am blessed because my wife is as calm as I. And it doesn't feel particularly different except, for example, I look at the calendar and personally it's a very, it's a sad moment. | |
| I was supposed to fly after today's show to Washington, D.C., give a big speech in Washington, then a big speech in Ottawa, and then a big speech in Budapest, Hungary. | |
| Needless to say, none of them are taking place. | |
| So I'll be sitting home instead of those speeches and speeches of the foreseeable future. | |
| The future historians will have to, and I don't mean 100 years from now, I mean pretty soon, you If this doesn't turn out to be what was projected anywhere in the world, including Italy, what will people, how will people react? | |
| Will they say, Hugh? | |
| We really stopped millions from dying by destroying the economy of the world. | |
| Or, hmm, maybe the projections were really exaggerated. | |
| I don't know how people will react. |
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